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For families of all theories of arbitrary given languages we describe ranks and degrees. In particular, we characterize (non-)totally transcendental families. We apply these characterizations for the families of all theories of given…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-01-30 Nurlan Markhabatov , Sergey Sudoplatov

Inspired by distributed algorithms, we introduce a new class of finite graph automata that recognize precisely the graph languages definable in monadic second-order logic. For the cases of words and trees, it has been long known that the…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-04-28 Fabian Reiter

This work is a survey of the main results reported for the degree of extension of two models defining non-regular languages, namely the context-free grammar and the extended automaton over groups. More precisely, we recall the main results…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Victor Mitrana , Mihaela Păun

In this work, we introduce a new notion for representing graph classes with formal languages. In contrast to the seminal work by Kitaev and Pyatkin to represent graphs by words, we use formal binary languages in order to have a set of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Henning Fernau , Pamela Fleischmann , Kevin Mann , Silas Cato Sacher

Languages may encode similar meanings using different sentence structures. This makes it a challenge to provide a single set of formal rules that can derive meanings from sentences in many languages at once. To overcome the challenge, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Laurestine Bradford , Timothy John O'Donnell , Siva Reddy

Sets with atoms serve as an alternative to ZFC foundations for mathematics, where some infinite, though highly symmetric sets, behave in a finitistic way. Therefore, one can try to carry over analysis of the classical algorithms from finite…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Michał R. Przybyłek

These notes present the essentials of first- and second-order monadic logics on strings with introductory purposes. We discuss Monadic First-Order logic and show that it is strictly less expressive than Finite-State Automata, in that it…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-01-26 Dino Mandrioli , Davide Martinenghi , Angelo Morzenti , Matteo Pradella , Matteo Rossi

We describe a Martin-L\"of-style dependent type theory, called Cocon, that allows us to mix the intensional function space that is used to represent higher-order abstract syntax (HOAS) trees with the extensional function space that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-05-13 Brigitte Pientka , David Thibodeau , Andreas Abel , Francisco Ferreira , Rebecca Zucchini

We propose a formal model of reasoning limitations in large neural net models for language, grounded in the depth of their neural architecture. By treating neural networks as linear operators over logic predicate space we show that each…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Bill Cochran

We investigate the extent of second order characterizable structures by extending Shelah's Main Gap dichotomy to second order logic. For this end we consider a countable complete first order theory T. We show that all sufficiently large…

Logic · Mathematics 2012-08-28 Tapani Hyttinen , Kaisa Kangas , Jouko Väänänen

The recently introduced dependent typed higher-order logic (DHOL) offers an interesting compromise between expressiveness and automation support. It sacrifices the decidability of its type system in order to significantly extend its…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Colin Rothgang , Florian Rabe

Many language technology applications would benefit from the ability to represent negation and its scope on top of widely-used linguistic resources. In this paper, we investigate the possibility of obtaining a first-order logic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-02-14 Federico Fancellu , Siva Reddy , Adam Lopez , Bonnie Webber

We propose a purely extensional semantics for higher-order logic programming. In this semantics program predicates denote sets of ordered tuples, and two predicates are equal iff they are equal as sets. Moreover, every program has a unique…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-06-20 A. Charalambidis , K. Handjopoulos , P. Rondogiannis , W. W. Wadge

We present a second-order language that can be used to succinctly specify ontologies in a consistent and transparent manner. This language is based on ontology templates (OTTR), a framework for capturing recurring patterns of axioms in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Henrik Forssell , Christian Kindermann , Daniel P. Lupp , Uli Sattler , Evgenij Thorstensen

A new family of categorial grammars is proposed, defined by enriching basic categorial grammars with a conjunction operation. It is proved that the formalism obtained in this way has the same expressive power as conjunctive grammars, that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Stepan L. Kuznetsov , Alexander Okhotin

Monadic second order logic and linear temporal logic are two logical formalisms that can be used to describe classes of infinite words, i.e., first-order models based on the natural numbers with order, successor, and finitely many unary…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-05-02 Silvio Ghilardi , Samuel J. van Gool

Polymorphic variants are a useful feature of the OCaml language whose current definition and implementation rely on kinding constraints to simulate a subtyping relation via unification. This yields an awkward formalization and results in a…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-07-06 Giuseppe Castagna , Tommaso Petrucciani , Kim Nguyen

We introduce a high-level language with Python-like syntax for string-to-string, polyregular, first-order definable transductions. This language features function calls, boolean variables, and nested for-loops. We devise and implement a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Aliaume Lopez , Rafał Stefański

Natural language understanding applications such as interactive planning and face-to-face translation require extensive inferencing. Many of these inferences are based on the meaning of particular open class words. Providing a…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Marc Light , Lenhart Schubert

Compositionality proofs in higher-order languages are notoriously involved, and general semantic frameworks guaranteeing compositionality are hard to come by. In particular, Turi and Plotkin's bialgebraic abstract GSOS framework, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sergey Goncharov , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder , Stelios Tsampas , Henning Urbat